Installing CRM 2013 On Multiple Server (NLB)

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Hi, i wanna install Dynamics CRM 2013 on Network Load Balancing (NLB) for the first time. My scenario is, there is 5 servers FARM topology. And we want to install 2 front end server. On the internet, i found this article

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/niran_belliappa/2014/02/17/network-load-balancing-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2013/

After reading the article, i have one short question. Do i need to have at least 1 server that runs full server role ?

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Hi,

it depends on what you want to load-balance.

Here is another article:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh699803(v=crm.7).aspx

And here is a quote from there:

"This topic describes the steps to install Microsoft Dynamics CRM in a two-node network load balancing (NLB) configuration where all Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server roles are installed on a single computer, using the NLB feature in Windows Server. This kind of deployment is called a Full Server installation. You can use similar steps to install a particular server group role, such as the Front End Server role, or one or more individual server roles"

In other words, I think you can put it this way: you can use load-balancing to load-balance a "role". It can be a full-server role, it can be a front-end role, etc. To answer your question - no, you don't have to have such a server, unless you are load-balancing a full-server role.

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